Historical Information:

In 1977, a "Women and Religion" resolution was passed by the General Assembly of the
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). This resolution, endorsed by the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, encouraged all Unitarian Universalists to examine the religious roots of sexism in their denomination, particularly in regard to sexist language. In 1978, UUA President Paul Carnes established the UUA Women and Religion Committee, and appointed Leslie Westbrook as minister for
it. The two major goals of the committee were to develop educational materials concerning women and religion, and to focus on
women in leadership in the UUA. In 1980 this committee also worked with the UUA Affirmative Action Advisory Committee to survey the experiences of women ministers and theological students, and to design and recommend an affirmative action program for the
UUA. The Women and Religion Committee also worked with district branches of the committee from UU congregations
from across the nation, and sponsored a number of conferences and convocations which brought UU women
together. The committee also made efforts to be in dialogue with women from other
denominations in order to compare and contrast their experiences as women in their respective denominations. The committee developed a program for identifying sexism in congregations, originally called "Checking Our Balance," and later called "A Sexism Audit for Unitarian Universalist Congregations." The Women and Religion Committee was disbanded in 1995 due to the fact that women were no longer a minority in the UUA in either membership or the ministry.
In 2003, the library also received another collection of material from
the UUA Women and Religion Committee, bMS 1013 .